None of this is true. I can’t get my head around the fact that people are investing billions in a technology which just makes things up and presents them as facts. Anyone who is relying on the AI summaries on Google is an idiot.

A simple truth spotted in a former Northumberland mining village, with boarded up shops, last week.

The beach at Lynemouth looking towards where the old seacoal camp used to be. There was a man with a four wheel drive foraging for metal so I tried to engage him in conversation but he wasn’t very forthcoming. He did say he used to gather sea coal and knew Trevor who ran the camp. Trevor was

The Ellington mine water treatment plant looming over the remains of a spoil heap which is crumbling into the sea at Lynemouth.

The picket line at the National Coal Mining Museum yesterday. It is ironic that the museum which celebrates the history of mining now has the last real miners’ strike that’s ever likely to take place in England. These men carry the flame of lived experience of mining which brings that museum to life.

The Rebellion! zine is now with the printer and we are waiting to see the first proofs. It will be around 52 pages with 48 photos from the Rebellion! project on protest, including three of my winning photos from Portrait of Britain.

Saw I Swear yesterday and it’s the best film I’ve seen in years. An emotional rollercoaster.

Bradford in the 1970s by Don McCullin.

From my Dungeness Desert Landscapes series. Four huge prints from this series were due to be shown at a gallery in Venice for the Biennale some years ago but Brexit scuppered it. They were held in customs for three months and missed the show.

A new look to my website. I’ll be adding a shop soon so you can buy signed prints, books and zines direct rather than emailing me.